Andrew Schulz
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in Rome, and Julius Caesar is so popular and has such a great following that he's almost able to sway the Roman people to move the capital of Rome itself from Rome down to Alexandria if he marries Cleopatra.
And so, essentially, Julius Caesar...
has this personality complex where he's conquered so much land.
He's acquired such a vast amount of wealth.
He goes on a vacation down the Nile with Cleopatra.
And this is probably the first time in his life.
He's always been treated like a king.
He's never been treated like a god.
The only god that Julius Caesar knows is Cleopatra.
Cleopatra.
Because Cleopatra is God to the Egyptian people, right?
So all of a sudden, he's like, I like that.
Yeah, all of a sudden he's being worshipped as not only am I this super rich warlord, I kind of like this idea of me being a god, you know?
And so think about what that does to his personality.
So he starts going back to Rome and he's like, you know, if we had this capital down in Egypt, we could rebuild the economy of Egypt and we'd have all of our food that all the
egypt is ours why do we need to take it across the mediterranean let's just move down there so all the politicians in rome are like oh we can't let this happen obviously you know we can't let this happen so they stabbed julius caesar to death and that yeah well that of course this is a lifetime also huge move though you don't want to move the whole capital down to alexandria yeah yeah so um so anyways uh that kind of what does cleopatra do when that
I believe she's in Rome at the time and she has to flee back to Egypt.
Doesn't she live with Mark Antony after that?
I think Mark Antony... I don't know if he... You gotta taste it.
No, no, no.